Course Announcements

BTW Course

BTW 263: Writing in the Disciplines
3 credit hours
Advanced Composition

Section P
“Do the right thing”: Poor Advice for Business Writers?
How do we “do the right thing” when our business mission conflicts with a legitimate interest not our own? And, what does it mean to “do the right thing” through writing? Ethical conflicts abound among communities with a shared interest in addressing key issues facing the world today. Our goal will be to improve our understanding of how to use community engagement to communicate ethically and professionally; we will conduct case studies and develop our own plans for managing an ethical crisis involving multiple interest groups.

 

Course Announcements, International study, Other departments

Spanish Major/Minor

I’m sure you are aware it is even more possible to double major since now the Gen Eds. take up even less of the 120 hours to graduate. If a student does well in Spanish and enjoys studying the language, it just makes sense to add it as a second major. Please encourage your students to attend the Spanish Major Information meeting today at 4:00 in the Lucy Ellis Lounge of FLB.  Additionally, our SIP Year Abroad in Barcelona Program also makes is easy to complete the bulk of the major in one year abroad. We will have information meetings for that on October 30 at 4:00 and Nov. 6 at 5:00. Both are in the Lucy Ellis Lounge. Students interested in either of these two things can also send an e-mail to me requesting information.
 
For those who are not in LAS, there is one more Spanish Minor Information meeting this semester on November 13 at 5:00 in the Lucy Ellis Lounge of FLB.  Please let students know who might be interested. Students can send an e-mail requesting information about the minor if they cannot make the meeting or they can wait until next semester when meetings will resume.
 
The date the Major restriction will be lifted for all Spanish courses above the 100 level is November 30 at 9 AM. Please tell students they will always find this date within the details section of the course description.
 
Beth Chasco
Undergraduate Spanish Advisor
4004 FLB MC-176
Walk-in hours posted weekly on:
Course Announcements

ACES 199 – Sustainable Food Systems

Attached is a poster/handout with information about our second iteration of ACES 199, Sustainable Food Systems, to be offered in the coming spring semester. The class is open to any undergrad in any major; there are no prerequisites – save perhaps for curiosity and an interest in doing some systems-oriented thinking about food and related issues.
 
ACES 199 – Sustainable Food Systems – is a 3-hour class meeting for the full semester in a lecture/discussion format. Class size will be capped at about 50. Instructors and presenters will be drawn from all ACES disciplines; a preliminary list of course topics is available from Dr. Robert Hughes at hughesro@illinois.edu.
 
Please feel free to copy, post, hand out and otherwise circulate the poster as you see fit.
 
Career opportunities, Other departments, Undergraduate research

NCSA Opportunities for undergraduates

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications

http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu

supports large scale computing in various disciplines and also has in-house research areas such as health sciences, bioinformatics, astronomy, and atmospheric sciences which can benefit from large scale data analysis.

Ian Brooks, who runs the Health Sciences Group currently has a Computer Assistant hourly position available

https://secure.admin.illinois.edu/osfa/vjb/detail.aspx?type=nonfws&postid=17131

While the primary focus is computer programming and the job only requires basic data analysis and visualization, he tells me having more advanced data analytic experience would be a nice plus. So if you have the computer skills he’s looking for and you are looking for hourly work, this is an opportunity worth considering.

He also tells me that there would be opportunities for a student interested in data exploration (in the public health realm) to do that in his group. They have data from sources including medical visits, weather, school attendance, and vet/med sources and are interested in extracting useful information for public health purposes. Currently this exploratory research would be unpaid and the compensation for these analyses would be shared publication credit, but it would be a good resume builder for anyone who is interested.

You can contact Ian directly at ianb@illinois.edu about the hourly position or potential exploratory research. There may be future opportunities in his group or other groups in NCSA as well.

I also wanted to make a quick plug for the Virtual Job Board

https://secure.admin.illinois.edu/osfa/vjb/

for students who are looking for work at or near the university and who may not have been aware of the board.

Darren Glosemeyer
Department of Statistics
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/glosemey/www/
Activities, Other departments, Student organizations

Financial Planning Club November Events!

Interested in Wealth Management?
All are welcome at FPC meetings!
Upcoming Events
·         HAPPY HOUR
o   Thursday, November 1st at Firehaus from 5-6:30PM
·         Speed Networking
o   Practice elevator speeches, interview questions, and review resumes 
o   Thursday, November 8th in 426 Mumford Hall from 6-7PM   
·         Portfolio Manager Forum
o   Feature 3 portfolio managers from Kovitz Investment Group, Midland States Bank
o   Thursday, November 29th from 3-5PM in the Monsanto Room (bottom floor of the ACES Library)
 
fpcillinois@gmail.com
Career opportunities, Graduate opportunities

Computational Neuroscience at Boston University

Interested in modeling how brains work?
 Get your PhD in Computational Neuroscience at Boston University
You may be surprised to find out that a bachelor’s or master’s degree in mathematics or statistics provides you with an excellent background for graduate studies in the exciting research field of computational neuroscience.
 
At Boston University, computational neuroscientists:
  • Develop realistic mathematical models of individual neurons for applications in health and disease
  • Create sophisticated statistical analysis tools for applications in human cognition and neurological disorders.
  • Create neural network models of brain circuits underlying perception, action, and cognition.
  • Build brain-computer interfaces that allow paralyzed people to control computers or robotic devices
  • Develop neuromorphic technologies that mimic how the brain solves complex problems such as vision, navigation, and movement control
 
These are just a few of the research opportunities available to Computational Neuroscience graduate students in the Boston University Graduate Program for Neuroscience. For more information, visit us at:http://www.bu.edu/neuro/graduate/computational-neuroscience/
Activities, Career opportunities, International study

International Virtual Career Fair

The International Virtual Career Fair is a great chance for international students to talk with top companies interested in hiring them for their home countries and/or the US.  Please contact me at vspring@illinois.edu if you have any questions.
 
 
VIRTUAL CAREER FAIR * REGISTER NOW * LEARN MORE HERE (Plus, iPod Nano Drawing)
NOVEMBER 7-8, 2012: International Students & Alumni will Meet recruiters live online..It’s easy!
 
Below are the registration links that could be linked to the images:
International VCF home page: http://international.careereco.net/
 
 
Tori Spring
Assistant Director, Employer Connections for Special Populations
The Career Center
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
715 S. Wright Street
Champaign, IL 61820
217-333-0820
Department of Statistics, Seminars

Dept. of Statistics Weekly seminar

Lee DeVille (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): Stochastic dynamics on networks. Emergence of collective behaviors
Date                Nov 1, 2012
Time               4:00 pm – 4:50 pm
Location         156 Henry
Sponsor         Statistics Department
Event type     Seminar
 
Dynamical systems defined on networks have applications in many fields in science and engineering. In particular, it is important to understand when networks exhibit synchronous or other types of coherent collective behaviors. Other questions include whether such coherent behavior is stable with respect to random perturbation, or what the detailed structure of this behavior is as it evolves. We will examine several models of networked dynamical systems and present a mixture of results that range from rigorous theorems for abstract models to quantitative comparisons of models and data.
International study, Scholarships/Fellowships, Seminars

Foreign Language & Area Studies Fellowships

**FUNDING OPPORTUNITY FOR YOUR STUDENTS**

Are you interested in foreign languages?  Do you enjoy learning about different cultures?

APPLY FOR FLAS FELLOWSHIP!

Attend one of the FLAS INFORMATION SESSIONS

(both for Graduate & Undergraduate Students):

October 29th 4-5pm, room 126 LISB, 501 E. Daniel St.

October 30th 4-5pm, room 126 LISB, 501 E. Daniel St.

The information workshops will feature information on FLAS Fellowships with presentations by the Area and International Centers FLAS coordinators. In addition to a general overview of FLAS fellowships and particular requirements for various Area Centers, you can get tips on how to write a successful application; what supporting documents you need; and who is appropriate for a recommendation.

 

Fellowship Amount

  • Academic Year Fellowships
    • Graduate students may receive full tuition and fee waiver and a stipend of $15,000 payable over the academic year. Eligibility for tuition waiver varies by home department and school.
    • Undergraduates receive $10,000 for tuition and fees and a $5,000 stipend.
  • Summer Fellowships
    • $5,000 towards tuition for a summer language program as well as required Illinois fees and a $2,500 stipend. In some cases, a travel award may also be made.

FLAS Fellowships support graduate and undergraduate study in modern foreign languages in combination with area studies, international studies, or international or area aspects of professional studies. The following languages, classified by Center, are approved by the U.S. Department of Education for FLAS fellowships at Illinois.

Note: Undergraduates cannot apply to study French, German, or Spanish. Undergraduate fellowships are only available for intermediate to advanced study of less commonly taught languages, which are defined as modern languages other than Spanish, German or French.

  • Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies (CEAPS): Advanced Chinese, Japanese, Korean, or Tibetan. *CEAPS is accepting applications only from graduate students. Undergraduate students are not eligible to apply thorough CEAPS.
  • Center for Global Studies (CGS): Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Hebrew, Hindi, Korean, Lingala, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian or Croatian, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, or Wolof; or at the advanced level* (third-year or above) Chinese or Japanese.
  • Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS): Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua or any other Amerindian Language, or at the advanced level (third-year or above) Spanish.
  • European Union Center (EUC): Arabic, Bosnian-Serbian-Croatian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, French, German, Greek (modern), Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, or Turkish. *Priority will be given to less-commonly-taught languages (languages other than French, German, Spanish) and higher-level language study.
  • Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center (REEEC): Bosnian, Bulgarian, Czech, Polish, Russian, Bosnian-Serbian-Croatian, Turkish, or Ukrainian.

 

For more information about FLAS Fellowships and eligibility requirements, please visit the FLAS Fellowships at Illinois website. 

 

FLAS Fellowship application deadline: 5 PM, 8 February 2013. Graduate students should check with their home departments about internal departmental deadlines